=== SoulShadow is now known as Shadows`sleep === eeejay is now known as eeejay_is_afk === bryceh is now known as bryce_away === htorque__ is now known as htorque === Shadows`sleep is now known as SoulShadow [14:57] smspillaz: Yes. I'm *at* UDS now. My Sydney->Dallas flight left about 3 hours before the shutdown was announced. [15:34] RAOF: haha, nice, yeah, mine left 3 hours before the shutdown was announced to [15:34] BUT I'm stuck in brisbane [15:34] for at least 2 more days [15:34] :( [15:35] (qantas is paying for my hotel and everything) [15:35] virgin is all booked up [15:35] smspillaz: damn :( [15:35] meh [15:35] they put us all up in 5 stay hotels with a 100AUD per-diem [15:35] can't complain [15:35] *star [15:36] except that dinner was 70AUD (!) [15:36] !!! [15:36] never going to the hotel restaurant again [15:36] Sofitel restaurant in brisbane: AVOID [15:38] the announcement was more or less hilarious [15:38] we touched down and [15:38] "so uh, for those who are travelling to sydney uh, we don't have clearance to take off" [15:38] "qantas isn't giving the control tower the necessary paperwork" [15:38] "....or the necessary paperwork to anyone else" [15:39] 5 minutes later [15:39] "so apparantly we're not allowed to work. sorry for the inconvenience I guess" [15:40] smspillaz: that's honesty for you [15:40] nobody had any idea of what was going on [15:40] (you have my sympathy I got snowed in at an airport last night) [15:40] ouch [15:40] yeah this lock out pretty much hit everyone by suprise [15:41] I feel really bad for the LAX people though, the lockout happend *when they were on the tarmac* and they *weren't allowed to take off* [15:41] but they couldn't go back to the gate either [15:41] so they were stuck on the plane grounded for at least 4 hours [15:41] at least the lockout happened more or less after we took off [15:42] ugh [15:46] good time if you happen to own shared in virgin airways australia though [15:46] *shares [18:34] smspillaz: Given the ruling from FWA, have things changed for you re flights? === m_conley_away is now known as m_conley === m_conley is now known as m_conley_away